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Cities publish climate change data deleted from EPA website

SAN FRANCISCO — Public research on climate change that was deleted from the EPA website by President Trump's administration was saved and is now available on websites hosted by the cities of San Francisco, Chicago and other communities around the nation.

Mayor Ed Lee joined mayors from a dozen U.S. cities who have published the saved information on their city websites, CBS San Francisco reported.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee.

CBS San Francisco

"Deleting federal web pages does not reset the scientific consensus that climate change is real," Lee said in a statement.

"The American people are entitled to publicly-funded EPA research on climate change."

City of Chicago officials created a website called "Climate Change is Real," and following that, Lee and the other mayors had their employees post the climate change research to their own cities' websites.